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Director Semih Kaplanoğlu's film "Bağlılık Hasan" (Commitment Hasan) will be Turkey's Oscar entry for the 94th Academy Awards next year.

Director Semih Kaplanoğlu's film "Bağlılık Hasan" (Commitment Hasan) was shown at the 74th Cannes Film Festival on July 12. Kaplanoğlu and actor Umut Karadağ attended the screening of the movie.

Director Semih Kaplanoğlu's film "Bağlılık Hasan" (Commitment Hasan) will represent Turkey at the 74th Cannes Film Festival.

In a statement, Kaplanoğlu said that the film industry around the world has been interrupted for a while due to the pandemic measures.

A foster family in the southern province of Adana has been fighting a legal battle for 1.5 years against their adopted son's biological father, who is asking for his son to be returned to him.

According to the lawsuit, a couple, Ayça Çatal and Atakan Çatal, got married in 2003 and did not have a baby for 12 years.

A staggering 477 women were killed and another 232 were injured at the hands of violent men in Turkey in 2018, according a report prepared by the Umut (Hope) Foundation, a prominent NGO dedicated to reducing personal gun ownership, ahead of International Women's Day on March 8.

Umut Berkutay (R) and his girlfriend Nazan Dedeoğlu

Ten people die every day from gun violence in Turkey, according to Umut (Hope) Foundation, a prominent NGO dedicated to reducing the ever-growing problem of private gun ownership in the country.

Israel's Foreign Ministry summoned Turkey's temporary charge d'affaires in Tel Aviv, Umut Deniz, on May 16.

The Umut (Hope) Foundation, a prominent NGO dedicated to reducing personal gun ownership, has sent a letter to all political parties and presidential candidates urging them to declare a commitment to curbing "individual armament."

Footage revealed by Kathimerini shows the moment when the Turkish patrol boat Umut rammed the Greek Coast Guard vessel 090 Gavdos off the islets of Imia late on Monday.

Although the incident did not result in any injuries, it served to illustrate rising tensions over the islets which were the focus of dispute that brought Greece and Turkey close to war in 1996.